Casting Instructions for 'Summoning para (A Finnish wealth spirit)'

1. Form the head of para from a children's hat by filling it with multicolored sticks

2. Put one consecrated eucharist wafer inside the head to give para a spirit (traditionally stolen from the church during communion)

3. Make the body from women's headcloth and fill it with threads.

4. Knit the body and head together.

5. Make the legs from three spindles by sticking them to the body pointing in opposite directions.

6. Take the para in an early Sunday morning to your local church (preferably Catholic of Lutheran) and run with it nine times around the church shouting: "The para is born".

7. Soon after the para is born and will jump on three legs.